Shooting

Police had already fired seven shots into Brendan Lindsay to end a siege in which Sheila Tran was held at knifepoint, but Constable Christopher McCormack tells an inquest there was still an imminent threat that forced him to keep shooting.

A Philippines provincial city mayor known for parading drug suspects in public but also alleged to have drug ties himself was shot and killed on Monday during a flag-raising ceremony in front of horrified employees.

Ask any farmer and they'll tell you that feral pigs need eradication because they carry disease and destroy crops. Unlike efforts to control other types of feral animals, there's a growing subculture of people who enthusiastically do it for free. But does that put pig hunters at risk from the very diseases farmers want gone?